Android Spotify connection
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Hello all
So I've been struggling to consistently connect Spotify app to my idrive. I can almost always see it, yet only sometimes can I connect and make it work.
Research around the Web reveals its a common android problem.
I've been undertaking a trial and error process of elimination, making sure phone unlocks, both connected app and Spotify app on in background and no settings on the phone turning it off.
What seems to work is putting the phone in the wireless charging bracket. Once connected with phone on bracket, it stays connected when phone comes out of bracket.
Hope this helps anyone with the same problem.
Anyone else got any insight?
(I'm using a Samsung s8 to a 66 plate 6 series)
Cheers
Bop
So I've been struggling to consistently connect Spotify app to my idrive. I can almost always see it, yet only sometimes can I connect and make it work.
Research around the Web reveals its a common android problem.
I've been undertaking a trial and error process of elimination, making sure phone unlocks, both connected app and Spotify app on in background and no settings on the phone turning it off.
What seems to work is putting the phone in the wireless charging bracket. Once connected with phone on bracket, it stays connected when phone comes out of bracket.
Hope this helps anyone with the same problem.
Anyone else got any insight?
(I'm using a Samsung s8 to a 66 plate 6 series)
Cheers
Bop
Greendubber said:
Interesting.
I'm about to order a 118i M Sport and was curious if Bluetooth audio streaming was standard and what's needed to use Spotify on my phone.
Is the connected app that bad? It'll be a new car, I'm not sure why they don't have Android auto tbh.
Bluetooth audio streaming is standard (and I think the apps are too - think it also works with business nav now but not 100% sure)I'm about to order a 118i M Sport and was curious if Bluetooth audio streaming was standard and what's needed to use Spotify on my phone.
Is the connected app that bad? It'll be a new car, I'm not sure why they don't have Android auto tbh.
Spotify integration works fairly well on my 3 series. Sometimes it bugs out and it is slow to connect initially but works much better than the native bt audio functions. This is with iOS though
SteBrown91 said:
Greendubber said:
Interesting.
I'm about to order a 118i M Sport and was curious if Bluetooth audio streaming was standard and what's needed to use Spotify on my phone.
Is the connected app that bad? It'll be a new car, I'm not sure why they don't have Android auto tbh.
Bluetooth audio streaming is standard (and I think the apps are too - think it also works with business nav now but not 100% sure)I'm about to order a 118i M Sport and was curious if Bluetooth audio streaming was standard and what's needed to use Spotify on my phone.
Is the connected app that bad? It'll be a new car, I'm not sure why they don't have Android auto tbh.
Spotify integration works fairly well on my 3 series. Sometimes it bugs out and it is slow to connect initially but works much better than the native bt audio functions. This is with iOS though
I'm popping in to order the car later so I'll ask the dealer what's what.
Just back from the dealer (car ordered.... hurrah!) and I mentioned my concerns about Spotify.
We jumped into a same spec car (although 6 months old) and it worked without any dramas. It was purely as a BT media source so I can't move about the Spotify menus but that'll do me. Salesman seemed to think if it's plugged in via USB it might allow you to do a bit more but I'm happy with what I've seen.
We jumped into a same spec car (although 6 months old) and it worked without any dramas. It was purely as a BT media source so I can't move about the Spotify menus but that'll do me. Salesman seemed to think if it's plugged in via USB it might allow you to do a bit more but I'm happy with what I've seen.
Yeh the BT streaming works a treat.
The app when it works is brilliant. Today I did 4 journeys, and it worked on 2, on one occasion it just connected and started playing in the same way the bt audio does.
Agree that the bt streaming is substantially the same. It's just frustrating because the app works sometimes, and also because iOS integration is so much better with bmw. I think bmw have come out and said that they won't support android auto. I think they have also said they will drop apple carplay and route everything through bmw connected. Which is bonkers as the rest of the world uses car aplay and android auto.
More importantly, congrats on new car!
The app when it works is brilliant. Today I did 4 journeys, and it worked on 2, on one occasion it just connected and started playing in the same way the bt audio does.
Agree that the bt streaming is substantially the same. It's just frustrating because the app works sometimes, and also because iOS integration is so much better with bmw. I think bmw have come out and said that they won't support android auto. I think they have also said they will drop apple carplay and route everything through bmw connected. Which is bonkers as the rest of the world uses car aplay and android auto.
More importantly, congrats on new car!
acd80 said:
iOS user here with an F11 (64 plate) - Spotify will connect only when it feels like it. It's not just an Android issue.
I’ve found that regularly doing an “update services” on the idrive helps as it checks the central servers for a new set of apps (it doesn’t say if it has updated it just re-downloads whatever is there) When I had issues.Mine is idrive 5 though so might be more reliable than older cars. Often if it doesn’t work a restart of the phone app sorts it. I would say on the whole 85% of the time it works straight off.
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